{"id":30,"date":"2006-07-25T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/not-quite-as-good-as-a-couch\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:33:00","slug":"not-quite-as-good-as-a-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/25\/not-quite-as-good-as-a-couch\/","title":{"rendered":"Not quite as good as a couch…"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyUniversity Library has a new book display. It has comfy couches. I can watch what other people are choosing. I can flick through several books in one sitting..not reading, browsing. It is in a corridor between two buildings, and right near our reference desk. This means people strolling past or waiting for the ref. desk are introduced to our new stock.<\/p>\n

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\nComfy chairs, books on wall.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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I don’t like the list of new books<\/a> in our catalogue. I can’t absorb it in one glance…and it takes too much effort to read each title. I do like the way it displays the cover of one new book on the backlinked page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AM sent me a nice half way idea for those times when I can’t get into the library and browse. <\/span>Edward Vielmetti<\/a> , who writes the <\/span><\/span>Superpatron – Friends of the Library, for the net<\/a><\/span> blog has made a mashup using the RSS feed from the<\/span> Ann Arbor District Library<\/a> ‘s Innovative Interfaces<\/a> catalogue. He’s taken the cover pictures of books featured in the new books list and placed them all on a single screen. He explains it here<\/a> and has an image of it here<\/a>. Clicking on a cover takes you to the catalogue record.<\/p>\n

Now, all I need is someone to somehow integrate the Amazon.com function that lets you “look inside” an item, sit on my comfy couch and pretend.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Imported from the earlier version of my blog that used Blogger. Commenter’s email and URLS will not show up.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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